Shifting demographics and bad tactics are responsible for Republican losses in the past two elections, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told Esquire magazine in an interview posted online this week.

``The demographics are going against us,” Jeb said.

``The swing voters are Hispanic voters in most of the swing states. And Republicans have done a poor job, sending signals that Hispanics aren’t wanted in our party. Which is bizarre.”

He blamed over-the-top rhetoric by conservatives in the debate over illegal immigration.

``It makes it sound like them and us,” he said. ``And the evidence is that after [the GOP] making major inroads, Hispanics have turned toward the Democratic party in the last two election cycles. Big time. Compare that to how my brother did and how I did and how other Republican candidates have done in the past, and you can see a trend line that’s quite disturbing.”- William Gibson

It seems to me that Jeb left this state in much better shape than it is now with Crist. We've got a guy who got married to help his political career. He promised to improve property insurance and property taxes. They're both in the cellar and we're going to keep paying. No, no, Jeb did a much better job.

Jeb, the fall of the GOP (your party) has nothing to do with demographics, it has to do with lies, bad management, bad policies the hypocrisy of your leaders and the lies and broken laws of your big brother. All you guys are for is cutting taxes and free markets. The people realize you have to pay your bills today and you cannot trust the free markets. There must be good, stiff regulation of business. You are your family should just leave - we all know you bought a huge tract of land in Paraguay preparing to depart once your big brother is brought up on war crimes and other crimes. Just go away you disgust me.

Bad tactics had noting to do with it. It was bad ideas (sometimes no ideas at all), bad morals and a narrow minded approach by the party in general that drove them into the ground and the rest of the country along with them. If we don't see another Bush in office for 100 years it would still be too soon.

Why is it the country always ends up circling the drain after Republicans have been in charge for any length of time? They're scam artists, robbing us blind while exhorting us how virtuous they are and want us to be. Has Jeb Bush done a day's honest work in his life? Know-nothing-anti-Latin-immigration is a kissing cousin of the Southern Strategy, Jeb, which is the major bulwark of the Republican Party. Maybe you should think about becoming a Blue Dog Democrat.

Most Hispanics are voting for Democrats because they are promising to reward illegal alies for their crime. The problem with the Republicans is they have chosen to pander to the illegal alien lobby such as W by proposing amnesty. It is only right that the illegals go home and stop discriminating against immigrants fron non-Spainish speaking countries. We also need to change the 14th amendemnt so ancor babies who are citizens of Mexico can not vote in our election.

Many of the hispanics that have swung the election are children of illegal imigrants in California and New Mexico. These illegal imigrants were allowed in by none other than the Criminal in Chief, Bill "Clinton" Blithe (Blithe is his real name). And why did the criminal Clinton allow these people in? Because he KNEW it would tip the balance of electoral power to the Democrats. I would call this treason. And if not, it was an unconstitutional act of war against a segment of the American people with the goal of using illegal means to usurp, defeat and gain power.

Why is it the country always ends up circling the drain after Republicans have been in charge for any length of time? They're scam artists, robbing us blind while exhorting us how virtuous they are and want us to be. Has Jeb Bush done a day's honest work in his life? Know-nothing-anti-Latin-immigration is a kissing cousin of the Southern Strategy, Jeb, which is the major bulwark of the Republican Party. Maybe you should think about becoming a Blue Dog Democrat.
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The author of this comment is nothing more than a member of the ignorant Democrat rabel.

Why is it the country always ends up circling the drain after Republicans have been in charge for any length of time? They're scam artists, robbing us blind while exhorting us how virtuous they are and want us to be. Has Jeb Bush done a day's honest work in his life? Know-nothing-anti-Latin-immigration is a kissing cousin of the Southern Strategy, Jeb, which is the major bulwark of the Republican Party. Maybe you should think about becoming a Blue Dog Democrat.
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The author of this comment is nothing more than a member of the ignorant Democrat rabel.

Jeb is a bright guy who used his talents to help enrich people who probably didn't need the help. He was able to reach out to Hispanic groups because his wife comes from a wealthy Mexican family and Jeb spent his early working years in Venezuelan banking. His son and daughter look like their mother (although Noelle had to do a stint in the pokey).

The problem with guys like Jeb is never their lack of competence; it's the fact that they are too skilled in helping the wrong kind of people, which are ambitious greedy people. People who are ambitious AND greedy have no business setting public policy for the rest of us to whom money simply isn't the source of our existence. Guys like Jeb always forget that whatever money can buy you, it can't buy class, nobility, respect for other people, or morals.

The problem is not poor tactics; it's too much tactics. It' this crazy professional party politician folly of worrying about ethnic groups and votes.
The GOP has become a spineless bunch of professionals who don't STAND for anything; they just worry about not offending that group or the other group.
What they should do is adopt a Gingrich kind of program, announce it and stick to it and quit worrying about social groupings.
They should start with a total list of Republicans swearing that they will shun ear marks, all of them. They have to look different from Democrats. Then they could go to REALLY closing the southern border and refusing benefits to illegals.
But quit this spineless avoidance of offending anybody. That's negative. They need something positive.

The problem is not poor tactics; it's too much tactics. It' this crazy professional party politician folly of worrying about ethnic groups and votes.
The GOP has become a spineless bunch of professionals who don't STAND for anything; they just worry about not offending that group or the other group.
What they should do is adopt a Gingrich kind of program, announce it and stick to it and quit worrying about social groupings.
They should start with a total list of Republicans swearing that they will shun ear marks, all of them. They have to look different from Democrats. Then they could go to REALLY closing the southern border and refusing benefits to illegals.
But quit this spineless avoidance of offending anybody. That's negative. They need something positive.

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